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Chips Up for AMD in Third Quarter

AMD appears to have gained at the expense of rival Intel in third-quarter x86 chip shipments.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. gained market share in the x86 chip market during the third quarter, a published report says.

The Sunnyvale, Calif., chip maker, which is Intel Corp.s primary rival in x86 processors—the chips used by most PCs and many computer servers—gained 1.6 points of market share during the quarter to give it 17.8 percent of the market, according to a report published by trade paper DigiTimes, which cites figures from a recent report by Mercury Research Inc.

Intel, on the other hand, slipped 1.4 points to 80.8 percent, the report, cited by DigiTimes, said.

Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury Research, declined to comment on the figures, saying he did not offer them to the publication.

However, based on the report cited by DigiTimes, AMD appears to have gained across the board, thanks to double-digit growth in notebooks, desktops and servers.

Notebooks and servers, traditional Intel strongholds, are two areas where AMD has stepped up its efforts of late. AMD has been offering dual-core versions of its Opteron processors since April and a month before that it rolled out Turion, a new mobile chip.

Intel, which has historically garnered around 80 percent of x86 chip shipments, had 82.3 percent of shipments in the second quarter, according to Mercury Research figures, announced in August. For its part, AMD had 16.2 percent of shipments during the second quarter.

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